• to be relegated to the mines if lower class (humiliores), banished to an island if upper class (honestiores), or executed if the potion results in death...
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    Emperor Hadrian made the awkward distinction between honestiores and humiliores, and among the honestiores we find the veterans, who had obtained this title...
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    beheading was the worst punishment that the law could inflict on honestiores; the humiliores might suffer crucifixion, burning, or condemnation to the beasts...
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    those who had acquired greater honours (honestiores) and humbler folk (humiliores). In general, honestiores were the members of the three higher "orders"...
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    criminal cases. Also, already at the time torture of free men of low status (humiliores) had become legal, as proved by the fact that Antoninus exempted town...
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    (Blackwell, 2006), p. 329. The lower classes (humiliores) were subject to harsher penalties than the elite (honestiores). This is a theme throughout Carlin A...
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    sets a bad example, the humiliores [those of a lower status, e.g., freed slaves] will be banned to a mine, and the honestiores [those of higher status...
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    to specify harsher punishments for the lower classes (humiliores) than for the elite (honestiores). This is a theme throughout Carlin A. Barton, The Sorrows...
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    its distinction in upper (rich) and lower (poor) social strata (honestiores and humiliores in Latin). Finally, concerning the cults of the residents, except...
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    academic, as socio-legal status devolved into a bifurcation of honestiores and humiliores: the tiny percentage of the populace who had access to power and...
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